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Student Success programs for the Los Angeles Community CollegesTue, 29 Apr 2014 22:22:27 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.32nd Annual LACCD Achieving the Dream Retreat at LAMChttp://laccdssi.org/2013/03/22/2nd-annual-laccd-achieving-the-dream-retreat-at-lamc/
http://laccdssi.org/2013/03/22/2nd-annual-laccd-achieving-the-dream-retreat-at-lamc/#commentsFri, 22 Mar 2013 16:44:07 +0000http://laccdssi.org/?p=836The sold-out (100 seats) 2nd Annual LACCD Achieving the Dream Retreat was a huge success. The day begin with a keynote address given by Ken O’Donnell, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Policy for the Office of the Chancellor of the California State University—the world’s largest public system of four-year universities. Ken is responsible for statewide curriculum development and articulation throughout the CSU system, with an emphasis on student success and the broadly transferable skills of liberal education: oral and written communication, problem-solving, collaboration, multicultural competence, and critical thinking. He also serves as the liaison for the California State University’s partnership with LEAP, and for the CSU’s participation in the Give Students a Compass initiative. Ken O’Donnell also has a blog, Diffusion of Light, where he writes about the state of higher education in California and the nation.

BREAKOUT 1

Education is about changing minds. At its most basic level it is about confronting and changing habits of mind.

No doubt, we teach subject matter and information. But even more so we strive to inculcate the skills of acquiring and questioning information and knowledge. We want students to effectively organize what they’ve learned to address problems and to question, set and accomplish their goals.

This session is for those interested in understanding and building the habits of mind that surround goal achievement. This session will introduce a range of habits of mind and illustrate how they can be developed in the classroom, through the use of support services, and infused across campus. Session participants will also consider implications for their own campus initiatives.

Handouts from Habits of Mind Presentation

Session B, CAI/Room #228: Evaluating Student Success Initiatives

This session will explore both formative and summative evaluation techniques, the use of logic models and creating an evaluation timeline and plan. The most common Achieving the Dream student success strategies will be discussed and possible outcomes and measures identified.

BREAKOUT 2

Session A, CAI/Room# 227: First Year Pathways: Giving Students a Strong Start

This session is for those interested in understanding and building first year pathways to ensure students get off to a strong start and complete substantial units towards their educational goals. This session will introduce a range of approaches and illustrate how they can be initiated and scaled. Session participants will also consider implications for their own campus efforts, including their participation in the district-wide Persistence Inquiry Project (PIP). PIP consists of faculty and administrators are developing an action research group on their campus to study the definition of persistence and investigate how to implement institutional changes that increase student persistence. In addition to learning about campus efforts, presenters will share the survey results of the district wide “Defining Persistence” survey.

Handouts from PCC presentation

Session B, CAI/Room #228: Evaluating Student Success Initiatives

This session will explore both formative and summative evaluation techniques, the use of logic models and creating an evaluation timeline and plan. The most common Achieving the Dream student success strategies will be discussed and possible outcomes and measures identified.

STUDENT SUCCESS GALLERY WALK & IDEAS EXCHANGE

]]>http://laccdssi.org/2013/03/22/2nd-annual-laccd-achieving-the-dream-retreat-at-lamc/feed/02nd Annual LACCD Achieving the Dream Retreathttp://laccdssi.org/2013/03/22/2nd-annual-laccd-achieving-the-dream-retreat/
http://laccdssi.org/2013/03/22/2nd-annual-laccd-achieving-the-dream-retreat/#commentsFri, 22 Mar 2013 12:09:12 +0000http://laccdssi.org/?p=802Please join us for the 2nd Annual LACCD Achieving the Dream Retreat. We are encouraging you to bring a team of 7-10 faculty, staff, and administrators from your college. Please include Core and Data Team Members, Counselors, SLO Coordinators, Institutional Researchers, and other people from across the campus who are key to your AtD Implementation/Integration efforts.

We are pleased to let you know that we will be joined by Ken O’Donnell, Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Policy for the Office of the Chancellor of the California State University—the world’s largest public system of four-year universities. Ken is responsible for statewide curriculum development and articulation throughout the CSU system, with an emphasis on student success and the broadly transferable skills of liberal education: oral and written communication, problem-solving, collaboration, multicultural competence, and critical thinking. He also serves as the liaison for the California State University’s partnership with LEAP, and for the CSU’s participation in the Give Students a Compass initiative. Ken is an incredibly talented thinker and speaker, and will be giving the keynote address, kicking off the Retreat. He is very interested in the work that you are doing with AtD at your colleges and will be staying with us for the morning to observe and make connections with you.

We will also be joined the entire day by John Nixon and Terri Manning, our AtD Liaisons. They will be leading a session focused on implementing your AtD initiatives, with an emphasis on conducting dialogue around areas of particular need for each campus and leveraging resources, such as those supporting data collection, to support high impact practices at scale across the colleges and to address student success goals in our new district strategic plan. There will also be sessions focused on student persistence in the first year (including 3CSN’s newest Community of Practice, Habits of Mind) and on classroom level effective practices (presented to you by the current participants in the Faculty Teaching and Learning Academy).

Review of and action items for work related to SSI Strategic Goals 2011/12:

Aligning our SSI efforts with AtD, including the mapping of a systemic student success agenda integrated with other significant initiatives such as accreditation, strategic planning, and student learning outcomes—with the overarching goal of improving learning and student achievement of educational goals;

Focusing on the front door—following up our first-year pathway taskforce recommendations by creating frameworks for scaling effective orientation and assessment;

Creating, supporting and providing resources for effective models to accelerate student completion of developmental sequences in math, English, and ESL;

Developing and scaling user-friendly data tools that will inform and drive efforts to close achievement gaps across the LACCD;

Increasing opportunities to engage in robust professional development, including FTLA, focused on aligning and promoting our student success agenda

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http://laccdssi.org/2011/11/15/latest-news-on-achieving-the-dream-in-the-laccd/#commentsWed, 16 Nov 2011 00:47:58 +0000http://laccdssi.org/?p=406Achieving the Dream Teams Are Off & Running

All colleges are in the process of developing a four-year plan, with broad engagement from the campus and external communities and commitment from top leadership, for 1) improving student outcomes based on evidence about barriers to success and effective practices and policies; 2) institutionalizing a process for continuously improving student outcomes based on evidence. If you would like to know more about each campus’s Core and Data Teams and each college’s overall focus for their Achieving the Dream efforts, click here.

Spotlight on Los Angeles Trade Tech

LATTC has published a marvelous newsletter to keep their campus community up to date regarding AtD plans and progress:

Bring information gathered from data and core team discussions about policies and procedures from the perspective of their campuses (teams and other key college players will have used the Checklist below).

Identify those policies and procedures that they believe may inhibit/stunt progress and success, thus preparing for district-wide discussions.